Starbucks Ceramic Mugs & Drizzles, Walmart Pay Increases & Amazon’s New Head Of Grocery | Fast Five
In this week’s Omni Talk Retail Fast Five news roundup, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Simbe, Mirakl, Ocampo Capital, and Scratch Event DJs, Chris and Anne discussed:
The appointment of Whole Foods CEO Jason Buechel to head up Amazon’s grocery strategy (Source)
Whether CPGs will jump at the chance to pay Walmart to test products with Walmart’s actual customers (Source)
If Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol could be getting ahead of himself with his plans for ceramic mugs (Source)
The veracity of Levi’s claims that its partnership with Google Cloud helped it to jump on the “baggy…
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